[edit] Events [edit] Arts and literature [edit] Cricket -
- 3 March Wales 11 - 0 Ireland (in Wrexham)[1]
- 24 March Ireland 2 - 10 Scotland (in Belfast)[1]
- 7 April Ireland 1 - 5 England (in Belfast)[1]
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- Winners: Cliftonville 2 - 1 Distillery
[edit] Gaelic Games - Several Cavan GAA football teams are formed including the Kildallan Wolfe Tones, Castletara, Butlersbridge Emmets, Drumlane sons of O'Connell, Ballintemple Bob Sextons, Ballinagh Erins Hope, Bawnboy Gallowglasses, Milltown Owen Roe's, Arva Michael Davitts, and the Cavan Slashers.
- April - The First Cavan GAA All Ireland Finals is held in Birr.
- April 7 - A Cavan GAA football game between the Cavan Slashers and Belturbet Rory O'Moores was reported by an Anglo-Celt reporter as "..A disgrace, I must state that a more rowdy and disgraceful meeting I have never witnessed and the conduct of the party that came along with the Cavan club was simply what I could not wish to describe" and "The filthy expressions used by them towards the Rory O'Moores is simply not fit for publication"
- April 30 - The first Cavan GAA County Championship Final was played at Cavan as the Maghera McFinns defeat the Ballyconnell First Ulster's.
[edit] Horse racing [edit] Births [edit] January to June [edit] July to December - 1 October - William Cosgrove, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1915 at the Battle of Gallipoli, Turkey (d.1936).
- 16 October - Edmond Pery, 5th Earl of Limerick, peer and soldier (d.1967).
- 24 October - Francis de Groot, upstaged New South Wales Premier Jack Lang at the 1932 official opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge (d.1969).
- 1 September - Frederick Maurice Watson Harvey, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1917 at Guyencourt, France (d.1980).
- 25 September - Harold Jackson, cricketer (d.1979).
- 28 September - Seán Lester, diplomat and last Secretary General of the League of Nations (d.1959).
- 29 September - Michael J. Stack, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (d.1960).
- 8 November - Gerald Robert O'Sullivan, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1915 at Gallipoli, Turkey (d.1915).
- 19 November - Seán Moylan, member Irish Volunteers, Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil TD, Cabinet Minister and Seanad Éireann member (d.1957).
- 7 December - Joyce Cary, novelist and artist (d.1957).
[edit] Full date unknown - Cornelius Colbert, nationalist and rebel, took part in Easter Rising, executed (d.1916).
- Dick Doyle, Kilkenny hurler (d.1959).
- Linda Kearns MacWhinney, nurse, Sinn Féin member and politician.
- Seaumas MacManus, writer.
- W. F. Marshall, Presbyterian minister and poet (d.1959).
- Art O'Connor, Sinn Féin MP, member of 1st Dáil, Cabinet Minister, lawyer and judge (d.1950).
[edit] Deaths [edit] Full date unknown [edit] References - ^ a b c Hayes, Dean (2006). Northern Ireland International Football Facts. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 1. ISBN 0-86281-874-5.
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